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sandieman··on Hiring Employee #1
Would be interested in hearing stock option philosophy on first hire. (how much, vest schedule, etc)
sandieman··on Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
reddit level of depth here
sandieman··on "This page is best viewed from the United States"
Not that this matters but relative to the other sites listed going after "world domination" dukechronicle has much higher % of US based traffic.
sandieman··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
Steve sold blue boxes with Wozniak that allowed you to make unlimited phone calls. They profited 6k from this and is often told as the story that set the bond and precedent on how the two worked together.

This cost the phone companies and was an illegal item that they sold on the "underground market"

If Steve didn't partner with Wozniak would Apple be around today? Doubt it.

Was this more immoral then sleeping on AOLs couches for a few months after your incubator ended? I would say so.

sandieman··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
If Steve Jobs had followed all the rules (many more unethical then sleeping on AOLs couch) I wouldn't be responding to this on my iPhone.
sandieman··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
"Disgustingly unethical" is a little much.

AOL is going to get press out of this that am sure they will find worth the few months of squatting.

Also, entrepreneurs break rules in order to get stuff done. I applaud Eric and look forward to seeing him do well in the future.

sandieman··on Ford vs Facebook
Dot 2.0
sandieman··on Welcome To Life
What happens if you don't agree to TOS?
sandieman··on Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes
Amen, this had airbnb win potential written all over it. Even if the CEO didn't want to apologize "because it was the right thing to do" the knowledge that it could have gained significant points from potential future hires that are reading this now shows lack of insight and self-awareness.
sandieman··on Why HBO's president panned Internet streaming (and Forbes' linkbait)
Prediction: within 2 years they will have a "subscribe now" on YouTube for HBO and other networks and in 3 years YouTube will be the biggest affiliate for them.
sandieman··on Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree
How much of this should have been found out in a background check?

Is the board responsible here as well?

I have to imagine hiring a new CEO for a public company the background checks must be impeccable.

sandieman··on Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree
Its a sign of poor character. Lying on your resume is inexcusable for CEO of any public company.
sandieman··on Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million
Sometimes you get lucky (like instagram) but revision3 hustled to thrive where many failed in video. Kudos to Louderback and team!!
sandieman··on Show HN: When was your last Internet vacation? (Built today on the Singly API)
I need a vacat.io.n
sandieman··on Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square Foot Lease
That would have been epic.

Zoning code issues or hard finding a block of housing to buy with owners willing to sell?

sandieman··on Show HN: Our weekend project - Pinstagram.co
Can't wait to see how mashable will pick this up.
sandieman··on Why Amazon Reserved Instances don’t make economic sense for startups
What would you suggest instead?
sandieman··on Growth Hacker is the New VP Marketing - Andrew Chen
For me this falls under same category as a "designer who can also code". It's great when you can find them but they are harder to find.
sandieman··on What do programmers listen to when coding? (1 min survey)
I would be interested more in the source of where everyone is listening: turntable.fm, rdio, spotify, hypem, iTunes, winamp, etc
sandieman··on Expanding the Cloud – Introducing Amazon CloudSearch
Why is this awesome?
sandieman··on Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’
Am I the only one that is finding him surprisingly convincing?
sandieman··on Slide.com shutting down
what in the world is prizes.org? very odd thing to link to.
sandieman··on Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011
That's why you use a 3rd party cloud backup service like backupify.
sandieman··on I Think You're Fat (2007)
Great listen, puts it all into perspective. Still don't understand the cat thing!
sandieman··on GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone
Even if this was all the lost accounts (it isn't).. this article is irrelevant. Last year during the same 7 day span, 88,401 left. 12/17/2010-12/23/2010

http://www.dailychanges.com/domaincontrol.com/2010-12-17/

Also a month ago, between 11/10-11/16 110,278 domains left.

sandieman··on Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for
have built a company in the middle of the country as well, and know this freelance type. Typically they are "okay" at design and "okay" at development. They work well for local small businesses but not for startups looking for top caliber design.
sandieman··on Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for
Come on, they don't exist. If so, who are some well known designineers?
sandieman··on Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer
Only if females existed on hackernews to let us know!
sandieman··on Deaths per TWH by energy source
"sorry page does not exist"
sandieman··on Chrome just popped an ad on me. This is inexcusable.
Where was this?
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